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Hawker Hopping: Jalan Batu Food Centre x Bendemeer Food Centre

Jalan Batu Food Centre is located near old airport road. I am going to hunt down some of the popular food over here.

1. Choon Mei Café 春妹茶室

Iced Milk Tea - $1.10

This drink stall has won a few awards and got feature in some media. The tea was fragrance, smooth and good. No wonder this stall won a few awards.

Taste: 3/5

3. Hainan Cooked Food Stall 海南咖哩什菜饭

Curry Rice ( 2 veg, 1 meat) - $3

The curry rice was pretty normal, the curry wasn't fragrance nor spicy. The egg was rotten, it has a weird smell and taste. The chicken cutlet wasn't crispy and it was soggy.

Taste: 0/5

3. KIM KEE (COFFEE SHOP) TANJONG RHU WANTON MEE 金记丹戎禺云吞面

Wanton Mee - $3

The wanton mee was chewy, smooth and springy. The sauce was the key to the success of this dish. It was savory and addictive. The char siew was pretty normal.

Taste: 2.75/5

Overall, this are the few stalls i tried as the queue was long or was recommended by the people around there.

Jalan Batu Food Centre
4A Jln Batu, Singapore, 432004

Bendemeer Food Centre was loccated at Boon Keng. You can easily reach the hawker by train.
During day time it was always packed and most of the stalls closed after lunch time so be sure to be early. Going to try those stalls that have long queue.

1. Yong Xiang Carrot Cake.

Carrot Cake (Black) - $2.50

The carrot cake was really good, it was fragrance, savory and the portion of egg was really generous.

Taste: 2.5/5

2. Muar Lor Mee, 麻坡滷麵.

Lor Mee - $2.50

The lor was really thick, starchy, and savory. The chilli enhanced the overall flavor!! Noodle was thick, chewy and smooth.

Taste: 3/5

3. Sims Place Prawn Noodle 沉氏坊蝦面's.

Prawn Noodle - $3

The prawn noodle was good. The chilli was spicy and fragrance. The ingredients was fresh and the noodle was smooth and springy.

Taste: 2.5/5

4. Long Xiang Hougang Hainanese Curry Rice.

Curry Rice (2 Veg, 1 Meat) - $3

The curry was just normal, it wasn't good enough. The pork cutlet was crispy and tender. The rest was just normal.

Taste: 1/5

Bendemeer Food Centre
29 Bendemeer Rd, Singapore 330029

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Hawker Hopping: Geylang Serai Market and Food Centre x Ang Mo Kio Central Market & Food Centre BLK 724 x Golden Mile Food Centre

Geylang Serai Market is one of the biggest and busiest wet markets in Singapore. Since 1964, this market has been a focal point for the local Malay community, with a good selection of Malay and Indian-Muslim specialties on offer.

1. Sinar Pagi.

Lotong - $3

The gravy is not overly saturated with coconut milk, but is redolent with spices. Loaded with vegetables, a piece of tau kwa and half an egg, the final magical touch is the generous topping of sweet "serundeng" (fried grated coconut).

Taste: 2/5

2. Hamid's Briyani.

Chicken Briyani - $5

The texture of the rice was near perfect. The grains were fluffy and separate and firm to the bite and you can taste the buttery ghee and spices in it. But they don’t use the top grade of Basmati rice here. The chicken was tender that you could seperate it with a fork and it literally dissolves in your mouth.

Taste: 3/5

3. Sinar Pagi Nasi Padang.

Nasi Padang - $5 ( 2 Veg and 1 Meat)

The rendang (Beef) has more intense flavour, it has been caramelised longer, and the meat looks almost jerky-like. However, with excellent knife skill and control of fire, the meat remains juicy and not chewy. Other dish was good too.

Taste: 3/5

Geylang Serai Market and Food Centre
1 Geylang Serai
Singapore 402001

Lunching with dad after his appointment. The food we ate are what my dad recommended.

1. Xi Xiang Feng Yong Tau Foo.

Yong Tau Foo - $3

Every piece from $0.40 to $1, minimum $2.50 every bowl. Xi Xiang Feng’s bee hoon is slightly different from the bee hoon in other noodle stalls. It is abit thicker and firmer, which gives the bite. Pairing it with chilli and sweet sauce is a wonderful combination. When some sesame seeds are sprinkled over, it tastes even better!

Taste: 3/5

2. Lim Hai Sheng Carrot Cake.

White Carrot Cake - $3

The standard has drop a lot. It wasn't nice anymore and wasn't worth the money!! The carrot cake is just normal. The amount of preserved radish (chye poh) mixed in it was very little too.

Taste: 1/5

3. AMK Fried Kway Tiao.

Char Kway Tiao - $3

This green plate may not serve the most visually appealing dish, but it sure kills a sinful craving! Generously fried with eggs, lup cheong & cockles.

Taste: 2.5/5

Ang Mo Kio Central Market & Food Centre BLK 724
724 Ang Mo Kio Avenue 6
Singapore 560724

Lunching with my friends at golden mile food centre as my friends want to buy some stuff. Went to do some research before we settle our lunch over here. All the food that i choose to eat, are either have good review or is having a long queue.

1. Chung Cheng Chilli Mee.Prawn Mee.Laksa.

Prawn Noodle - $4

It was an awesome combination of sweetness and spiciness. It was not overly spicy. It was made from belachan, garlic, onion, shrimp, chilli and other spices. the pork ribs as they were cooked till soft, tender and savory. The prawn was quite disappointing as it wasn't fresh.

Taste: 3/5

2. Hainan Fried Hokkien Prawn Mee.

Hokkien Mee - $3

This Hainanese Hokkien Mee serves an absolutely delicious dry Hokkien Mee featuring thin bee hoon noodles which are perfect for soaking up flavour from the stock.the intense flavour it delivers thanks to the gravy having been reduced down to form a mouthwatering coating to the bee hoon.

Taste: 3/5

3. Keng Heng (Whampoa) Teochew Lor Mee.

Lor Mee - $3

The main ingredients are braised pork, fried fish skin, fried dumpling, fried ngor hiang together with fish cake. The condiments available are sambal belachan chilli, red cut chillies, freshly diced garlic, chopped spring onion and vinegar. The braised sauce is not as thick and sticky, other ingredients was normal.

Taste: 2/5

4. Hainanese Boneless Chicken Rice.

Chicken Rice - $3

The rice is fragrant and the chicken is smooth and soft. The soup that comes with it and the chili sauce are also yummy.

Taste: 3/5

5. Zhao An Granny Glass Jelly.

Grass Jelly - $1

Granny Sim’s Grass jelly is refreshingly pang (fragrant) from the boiled Mesona Chinensis and has a QQ spring to every mouth. Drizzled with a light syrup, and topped with shaved ice, this bittersweet dessert will definitely cool your system on a hot day.

Taste: 3/5

Golden Mile Food Centre

505 Beach Rd
#01-61 Golden Mile Food Centre
Singapore 199583

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Hawker Hopping: People's Park Complex Food Center x Hong Lim Market and Food Centre x Clementi 448 Market and Food Centre

People's park complex food centre is one the many famous hawker centre in Singapore. Went have lunch with family on weekend afternoon.

1. Yong Xiang Xin Dou Fu.

Yong Tau Foo - $4

Run by a family of 5 brothers, this stall has been here for quite a number of years having passed from the hands of generations. The one unique thing about this stall is that they serve nothing else but a bowl of fixed ingredients - no carbs. They start business daily from 12pm depending and they finish by 4pm or when the food runs out.

Taste: 3/5

2. Penang Kitchen.

Big Prawn Noodle - $4

It was an disappointing dish. Waste my time to quit for it!! The soup tasted awful. Ingredients not really fresh too.

Taste: 0/5

3. Ri Ri Hong Mala Hot Pot.

Mala Hot Pot - $15

This is the craze now over at People's park, every table has this big bowl of "mess". It might look like a mess of chili oil, it's really good! It's like how you eat Yong tau foo, you choose your ingredients and they will toss in the sauce and chili oil. You get to choose the level of "辣”, we usually go for ” Big Spiciness” to have a shiok feeling. It's $15 for such a huge bowl! Good for sharing.

Taste: 3/5

People's Park Hawker Centre
1 Park Rd
Singapore 059108

Went to have chinatown again for lunch again with family on the following weekend!!

1. Heng Kee Curry Noodle.

Curry Noodle - $3

Heng Kee delivers satisfyingly thick curry gravy that carries their signature taste from a priceless age-old recipe. Served with generous portions of tau pok, chicken, fish cake and potato, this bowl of goodness will leave you slurping up every last drop.

Taste: 3/5

2. Crayfish and Prawn Noodle.

Crayfish Horfun - $6

Very smooth hor fun with extremely fresh crayfish and prawns. The chilli is good too! Worth the queue.

Taste: 2.5/5

3. Ji Ji Wanton Noodle Specialist.

Chicken Cutlet Noodle - $4

It's always a long queue here. Ji Ji had been nominated a local hawker favourite by many TV programmes and it's no wonder why. Their noodles are coated in a sauce that surprisingly smells like cai pok. Chicken cutlet was crispy and tender. And they weren't stingy with the pork Lard either. Oh, do remember to add a whole spoonful of Chilli cause it's just way too awesome.

Taste: 3.5/5

4. Outram Park Char Kway Tiao.

Char Kway Tiao - $2.50

The char kway teow here is coated in a sweet, special mixture of sauces and with noticeably more egg than elsewhere. Plump cockles, beansprouts and good ol' crunchy pork lard make this even better. Freshly fried, greasy char kway teow laden with wok hei.

Taste: 3/5

Hong Lim Market and Food Centre

531A Upper Cross St.
#04-42 Blk HongLim Complex
Singapore 051531

Hawker Hopping, hop to west area!! Clementi hawker is full of good food!! Hopefully the queue is worth it!!

1. Hong Sheng Fish Soup.

Fish Soup - $4

The fish slices were amazingly fresh and crazily tender. The amount of tik poh added was just nice unlike the other stall which just had too much of it. The soup had a Shiok clean taste to it. Together with dipping the fish slices into their homemade chili sauce with ginger, I just simply mind blown.

Taste: 4/5

2. Kee Hock Hor Fun.

Beef Hor Fun - $4.50

Generous portions of tender beef with each ribbons of hor fun bursting with smoky flavours of wok hei.

Taste: 3.5/5

3. Snow Mount Char Kway Tiao.

Char Kway Tiao - $3

Nothing fantastic. It's just an normal char kway tiao.

Taste: 1/5

4. Fried Carrot Cake.

Black Carrot Cake - $3

The queue here at this stall are super long!! Queued for more than an hours for it. And i can say i will never queue again as it wasn't really worth the long hours of queue. The carrot cakes is soft, mushy, crisp and charred bits. They still use lard oil and fish sauce to fry, making it one of the more fragrant carrot cake in Singapore!

Taste: 3/5

5. Tanglin Halt Western Food.

Black Pepper Chicken Chop - $4.50

It stood out from the rest is their home-made sauces, which exists in the flavours of black pepper, a special rendition of tomato-based BBQ sauce, and especially, peanut gravy. The black pepper sauce was really good. The chicken was tender and juicy.

Taste: 3.75/5

Clementi 448 Market and Food Centre
448 Clementi Avenue 3
Singapore 120448

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Hawker Food Review: Telok Blangah Drive Hawker Centre

Recently, i heard Telok Blangah Drive Hawker Centre got a good and yummy hainanese curry rice. So i went down to give it a try with 2 of my foodies friends, Alvin and Kai.

65 Hainanese Curry Rice.

Hainanese Curry Rice - $3.70 (1 Meat, 2 Veggie)

There are few notable must-haves in Hainanese curry rice: the cabbage, the braised pork, the deep fried pork cutlet and the curry that covered almost everything!

The taste-wise, the Chap Chye (Cabbage) was really well executed bringing out the natural sweetness of the cabbage with its delightful texture. The braised pork belly wasn't that good as it was lacking of some flavor and the meat wasn't tender enough. The braised egg was just normal, the braised gravy wasn't that good as it was lacking of flavors as it was very light. The curry sauce is basically the soul for the entire combination in Hainanese curry rice, the curry gravy was thick, creamy and the spiciness was just right.

The pork cutlet was the worst dish out of all. The pork cutlet wasn't flavorful as it was very tasteless, and the flour taste was very strong. The curry chicken was flavorful and the meat was soft and tender.

Food: 1.8/5

Overall, the curry rice was pretty average, i would still prefer scissor cut curry rice. It's worth a try. During lunch and dinner time, the queue is always very long, and it might need to queue for at lease 30 mins or longer.

Telok Blangah Drive Hawker Centre
79 Telok Blangah Drive,
Singapore 100079

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85 fengshan Market and Food Centre

Hawker Hopping: Lau Pa Sat Festival Market, 85 fengshan Market and Food Centre, Chinatown Complex Market & Food Centre

Hi Readers, i'll be doing a hawker hopping post!
Be sure for more local food on my blog now on!

First Stop, Lau Pa Sat Festival Market.

Built in the 19th century, Lau Pa Sat or Telok Ayer Market has long dominated the local landscape with its striking presence. A true Singapore landmark, it was gazetted as a national monument in 1973.

Located at Singapore’s Central Business District, Lau Pa Sat is busy with the crowds of office workers at lunchtime. At night, a satay street is rapidly set up at the outdoor area of the food market, adding more bustle to the place.

1. Satay.

Satay - $0.60 each for all type meat

There are more than 10 satay stalls, each stall offers its unique flavors. You can have satay skewers of chicken, lamb, beef and pork. We choose chicken and lamp satay from stall 6. The chicken satay was quite dry and tough. But the lamp satay was meaty, flavorful and well marinated. The peanut sauce is thick, sweet and not too spicy.

Taste: 1.75/5

2. BBQ Chicken Wings.

BBQ Chicken Wings - $1.20 Per Pics

The Chicken Wings here are pretty good. I think they could be a little bigger, but they are roasted nicely and the marination is just right. It was fresh, hot and crispy on the outside from the roasting. Sprinkle some lime and dip it into chili and yum yum!

Taste: 3.5/5

3. Lai Heng Fried Oyster.

Fried Oyster - $5

It wasn't good! The fried oyster isn't crispy enough and the Chilli sauce seen a bit lacking, and it was too oily and bland. The oyster was a bit dry too.

Taste: 0/5

4. Boon Tat Street BBQ Seafood.

BBQ Sambal Stingray - $10 (S), $12(M), $16(L)

The sambal stingray was pretty bad. Th sambal stingray was over grilled and the sambal chilli wasn't spicy, instead it was quite bland. Overall taste was super bad! It wasn't worth a try.

Taste: 0/5

5. Lau Pa Sat SugarCane.

SugarCane - $2

The sugarcane was fresh and sweet. Adding a lemon for more refreshing.

Taste: 3/5

Lau Pa Sat Festival Market
18 Raffles Quay
Singapore 048582

Second stop, 85 fengshan Market and Food Centre.

85 fengshan Market and Food Centre was located at Bedok North, it was another famous supper place in the east. The most famous food is "Bak Chor Mee", it's a must to try whenever you travel to bedok for supper.

1. Xing Ji Rou Cuo Mian.

Bak Chor Mee - $3.50

The most famous food over here. High Expectation on it. The stall only sells the soup version which came with minced meat, meat balls and cut red chilli. Taste-wise, the noodles were firm to the bite but the minced pork had an unnaturally sweet aftertaste. The meatballs were firm and nice. The broth was slurping good too. I enjoyed having the cut red chilli with the noodles and asked for more. actually cut red chilli wasn't spicy all.

Taste: 3.25/5

2. Bedok North 85 Fried Oyster.

Fried Oyster - $3

The freshly cooked fried oyster was decently executed. It had the right portion of starch and egg mixed together. each piece was crispy on the outside while soft and moist on the inside. the oysters were fresh, plump and juicy! Moreover, the chilli complements this real well.

Taste: 4/5

3. Bedok North 85 Fried Oyster.

Fried Kway Teow - $3

Same stall as fried oyster. The Fried Kway Teow was not bad. It had a semi-wet consistency and each piece of kway teow was well coated with savoury sauce. There were several pieces of cockles added. The beansprouts provided a crunchy texture in between each mouthful. Chinese sausage (lap Cheong) were added too

Taste: 2.5/5

4. Bedok North 85 Fried Oyster.

Fried Carrot Cake White - $3

It was good. It has the right texture and softness, great seasoning and white radish taste, Crispy exterior but soft with right moist interior as well as generous portion of eggs.

Taste: 3.25/5

5. Sin Bedok North BBQ Chicken Wings.

BBQ Chicken Wings - $1.30

Each time order, you would need to order a minimum of two chicken wings. The BBQ chicken wings was pretty good. It was crispy and charred glistening skin on the outside while incredibly juicy and tender on the inside. It was well marinated, flavorful both on the outside and inside.

Taste: 3.5/5

85 fengshan Market and Food Centre

Blk 85 Bedok North St 4 S(460085)

Third stop, Chinatown Complex Market & Food Centre.

Located in the heart of Chinatown, Chinatown Complex Food Centre is a great place to have local traditional dishes and Singaporean street food while you are visiting Chinatown.

1. China La Mian Xiao Long Bao.

Xiao Long Bao - $5 for 10pieces

It was pretty good. The broth of the dumplings and the filling is tasty and the skin is not too thick. Most xiao long bao in hawker centers are pretty bland but this one hits the spot. This is served with black vinegar and shredded ginger which compliments this dish well.

Taste: 3.25/5

2. Hong Kong Soya Sauce Chicken Rice & Noodles.

Soya Sauce Chicken - $7/Half, $14/Whole chicken

It was good. This stall always has the longest queue in this food center with waiting time that could exceed an hour where a constant queue forms even during off-peak hours. The meat is given a deeper dimension of taste and optimal tenderness. The sauce is savory yet sweet and goes really well with the noodles/rice.

Taste: 3.75/5

3. Guang Zhou Kitchen.

Shrimp Dumpling - $3.50

The signature dish over this stall. It was good, the noodles was springy and resilient, yet not lumpy. The gritty crispy dried shrimps sambal was good, it was was spicy, flavorful and fragrant. The dumpling, was tightly wrapped with mince pork, shrimps and black wood ear fungus. The umami he lent to the base sauce in the noodles, took all that to another level.

Taste: 3.5/5

4. Cheng Ji 成记.

Steamed Song Fish Head - $13

This stall was featured on Sizzling Woks 煮炒来咯 season 2 hosted by Li Teng and Pornsak. It was pretty good. The fish is fresh and flaky and melts in the mouth. The soya sauce is appetizing and goes great on rice.

Taste: 3/5

Chinatown Complex Market & Food Centre

Blk 335 Smith Street

Singapore 050335

That's all for hawker hopping adventure.

Stay tune for more foodies hunt!!

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